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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 05:37:02 JST Nonilex

   This is beyond…

   #LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.

   #law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
   https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 08:28:19 JST Nonilex

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     …Acc/to an #AFP source, the incident occurred on March 9. The space #science researcher allegedly underwent a *random* check on arrival, during which his work #computer & personal #phone were searched.…Messages referring to the treatment of scientists by the #Trump admin were found. He was accused of messages "which reflect hatred towards Trump & can be described as terrorism". His professional & personal equipment was #confiscated & the researcher was sent back to #Europe…
     #law #geopolitics #US

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 08:29:05 JST Nonilex

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     "I learned w/concern that a French researcher [on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (#CNRS)] who was traveling to a conference…was denied entry to the #UnitedStates before being expelled. This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher's phone contained exchanges w/colleagues & friends in which he expressed a personal #opinion on the #Trump admin's research policy,” said #France’s Minister of Higher #Education & #Research.
     #law

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 08:29:06 JST Nonilex

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     Acc/to another informed source of #AFP, "hate & conspiracy messages" were blamed on the French researcher by #US authorities. An #FBI investigation into him was announced, for which "the charges have been abandoned," continues this source.

     …This incident comes as… #Trump has increased his shocking announcements targeting the #scientific community (brutal #BudgetCuts, #censorship of certain subjects in subsidized research...).

     #law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #science #ThoughtPolice

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     Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅ (nancylwayne@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 09:17:07 JST Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅

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     @Nonilex As a U.S. scientist, I honestly think that the international community should boycott all travel to the U.S.. Yes, that means canceling plans to attend U.S.-based conferences, which will do further damage to the scientific enterprise. But, it's not safe here for anybody. I'm also very critical of tRump and his gang of goons. I also don't feel safe here.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 16:22:40 JST Nonilex

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     “We’ll have to stop research now that the Neanderthals are in charge”

     #science #research #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy #USpol

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     BrownIsBeautiful (brownisbeautiful@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 16:24:54 JST BrownIsBeautiful

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     • Alex P Roe

     @alex_p_roe @Nonilex Some of us already have to be careful about where we speak Spanish out loud.

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     Alex P Roe (alex_p_roe@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 16:24:55 JST Alex P Roe

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     @Nonilex Shades of Soviet Russia and east Germany. Soon you’ll have to be careful what you say in public as you will be reported by a MAGA spy for speaking ill of dear leader.

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     MasterDim (masterdim@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 16:26:54 JST MasterDim

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     Literally “We’ll have to stop research now that the Neanderthals are back in charge”…

     https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-20/trump-america-first-policy-risking-australian-uni-research-funds/105072344

     @Nonilex #auspol #uspol #science #research #Trump #idiocracy

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 16:27:38 JST myrmepropagandist

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     @Nonilex

     I agree with the comic and just don't think it's fair to use the term "neanderthal" to mean brute when we don't know what they were like really.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 16:27:40 JST myrmepropagandist

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     @Nonilex

     more like neSLANDERthals because this is total slander.

     leave my red-head chunky cousins alone.

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